Last year's 24th annual International Coastal Cleanup saw 500,000 volunteers around the world remove debris from oceans, lakes, and rivers.
Khabarovsk, Russia looked to sister-city, Portland, Ore., for better waste collection and disposal methods and plans to incorporate pre-load compactors into its waste transfer system.
Twelve entities in 10 states are receiving up to $200,000 each to train people in the cleanup of brownfields while also providing training in green building design, energy efficiency, weatherization, solar installation, green construction, and native plant revegetation.
Alabama, Oklahoma, Ohio residents want EPA to regulate coal ash as a hazardous waste.
Region 7 invites government, nonprofit, coalition and land clearance representatives to learn how to submit a proposal for brownfields grants.
Throwing sharps containers, red bags, and spill cleanup materials into the trash sends up a red flag to commercial or municipal trash collectors because they are not allowed to take this waste.
- By Burton J. Kunik
- April 13, 2010
An Institute for Energy and Environment Research report notes that France uses less than 1 percent of the natural uranium resource and has higher waste volume.
Wind Simplicity is a finalist in the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries' Design for Recycling Award.
To further clarify environmental permitting requirements for Appalachian mountaintop coal removal projects, the agency has issued a comprehensive guidance to its regional offices.
Respiration indices can be used as a measure of the biodegradable organic matter content and stability of organic materials and have defined the most suitable form of expression for those indices.
The Arizona State Prison in Pima County installed a system that uses compressed air to break down fats, oils, and grease in a sewage lift station.
The Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration will clean the hulls and remove flaking paint on 20 of the ships to be recycled before September, 2012.
Honeywell International Inc. also will pay for all of the United States’ response costs relating to the tar plant area, including oversight costs.
Notifications should be submitted at least six weeks before the July 7 deadline.
New roadmap guides EPA in providing more accountability, transparency, and progress in contaminated site cleanup.
The National Center for Policy Analysis says that the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant has sufficient infrastructure for ongoing nuclear waste disposal operations.
The project will provide farmers with a new source of clean water by concentrating and converting waste salts from drainage water into clean chemicals.
Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection revoked an amendment to a pollution discharge permit for the Shannopin Mine Dewatering Project, prompting action by the environmental groups.